On 9/16/2010 12:33 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
It seems that in your mind, each vendor will provide their own app
store,
it will be the very common case where the vendor will decide which of
the various app stores he will use.
appstores are 'the thing' nowadays, and Nokia and Intel each have their
own already.... I wouldn't be surprised if
others either do their own completely, or syndicate an existing one but
with their own control.
that MeeGo will not provide any build, packaging or hosting
facilities, and that the products of the MeeGo project will start& end
with the core distribution + specs on what makes up a compliant
application. The burden of providing a distribution channel& hosting is
entirely pushed to the vendors. Is that a fair assessment? If it is,
where do you see community apps being distributed? How would Linpus
users be able to get at& install applications from the Novell app store?
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding how you see this working in practice. If
so, perhaps you could clear up my misunderstanding a little?
I think that in practice, phones will be locked down and the content you
can get on it controlled by the operator and/or OEM.
Yes there will be some people who will buy an unlocked phone (if those
are locked down or not will depend on the OEM), but
the vast majority will be operator subsidized and thus locked down.
Other categories may or may not be more open than that... but the locked
down model also needs to work for compliance.
Compliance is "your app will work on all meego compliant devices" (and
yes "work" will mean "as well as it did on your original device form
factor", not "it'll be perfect even if you move a phone app to your tv"),
not "your app will work on all meego compliant devices except those that
are locked down or do not use Extras".
now MeeGo extras is a great idea, and I can't wait to see all those
MeeGo Touch Framework apps show up and be available for the meego.com users.
But to be honest, I somewhat doubt that hardware vendors or the
operators will think more than a few seconds and just not enable it,
even if they were to take the OS nearly directly from meego.com
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